{"id":909481,"date":"2026-09-29T06:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/909481\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T06:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:36:14","slug":"boeing-nasa-eye-starliner-uncrewed-return-to-flight-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/909481\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing, NASA Eye Starliner Uncrewed Return To Flight In December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Boeing, NASA Eye Starliner Uncrewed Return To Flight In December | Aviation Week<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/themes\/custom\/particle\/dist\/app-drupal\/assets\/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"#main-content\" class=\"visually-hidden focusable\"><br \/>\n      Skip to main content<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <a id=\"main-content\" tabindex=\"-1\"\/>      <\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color:#B02028;font-family:Source Serif Pro;padding:1rem;\">We will be performing site maintenance on Tuesday, September 29 starting at 3:00am EDT \/ 8:00am BST and anticipate it will take approximately 1 hour. 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We apologize for any inconvenience.<\/p>\n<p>                        <a class=\"article__byline\" href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/author\/irene-klotz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Irene Klotz<\/a><br \/>\n                    September 28, 2026<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/starliner-update-sept-28.jpg\" alt=\"NASA Caption: Starliner reached the space station for a crewed flight test on June 6, 2024,  but safety issues prompted NASA to return the capsule uncrewed\" class=\"b-lazy  img \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Starliner reached the International Space Station for a crewed flight test on June 6, 2024, but safety issues prompted NASA to return the capsule uncrewed.<\/p>\n<p>Credit: NASA<\/p>\n<p>              CAPE CANAVERAL\u2014More than two years after the troubled crewed flight test of <a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/term\/boeing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boeing<\/a>\u2019s CST-100 Starliner space taxi, NASA and <a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/term\/boeing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boeing<\/a> aim to return the spacecraft to flight with an uncrewed cargo run to the International Space Station (ISS) in late December or January. That flight test\u2014the fourth in a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790663774_966_klotzirenesized.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"b-lazy  img author__image \"\/><\/p>\n<p>          <a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/author\/irene-klotz\" class=\"author--teaser__name\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Irene Klotz<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"author--teaser__bio\">Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.<\/p>\n<p>            Subscription Required<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:25px;\">Boeing, NASA Eye Starliner Uncrewed Return To Flight In December is published in Aerospace Daily &amp; Defense Report, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) Market Briefing and is included with your AWIN membership.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:25px;\">Already a member of AWIN or subscribe to Aerospace Daily &amp; Defense Report through your company? <a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/user\/login\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Login<\/a>\u00a0with your existing email and password.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:25px;\">Not a member?\u00a0 Learn how you can access the market intelligence and data you need to stay abreast of what&#8217;s happening in the aerospace and defense community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boeing, NASA Eye Starliner Uncrewed Return To Flight In December | Aviation Week https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/themes\/custom\/particle\/dist\/app-drupal\/assets\/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg Skip to main content&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":["post-909481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}